On raising his head, his eye was attracted by the brilliant splendour emitted by gold and jade and by the dazzling lustre of the elegant arrangements.
After all, this a consensual couple, nuzzling in a hotel room, neither of them nude.
Hsüeh's apartments, whither she had just crossed, when she perceived Chia Huan come back from school, and she bade him transcribe incantations out of the Chin Kang Canon and intonate them.
This scene is significant because it shows sex workers not simply as the fantasies of clients, but as people on their own professional journeys.